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The ASCOD (Austrian Spanish Cooperation Development) armoured fighting vehicle family is the product of a cooperation agreement between Austrian Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG and Spanish General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas. Both companies are now divisions of a unit of General Dynamics. The ASCOD family includes the LT 105 light tank equipped with a 105 mm gun, a surface-to-air missile launcher, an anti-tank guided missile launcher, mortar carrier, R&R vehicle, command-and-control vehicle, ambulance, artillery observer, and the AIFV model.

Key facts

Weapon.is_vehicle
yes
Weapon.type
Armoured fighting vehicle (ASCOD Ulan/Pizarro)
Weapon.service
2002–present
Weapon.origin
Austria and Spain
Weapon.name
ASCOD
Weapon.image
File:Trident Juncture 2018 181103-M-RI194-005.jpg
Weapon.image_size
300px
Weapon.caption
The Spanish Armed Forces Pizarro variant of the ASCOD
Weapon.used_by
See Operators
Weapon.length
6.83 m (22 ft) (Pizarro/Ulan), 9.5 m (31.16 ft) (ASCOD)
Weapon.width
3.64 m (12 ft)
Weapon.height
2.43 m (8 ft)
Weapon.developed_into
ASCOD 2 (ASCOD SV) Sabrah light tank GD Ajax GD Griffin M10 Booker
Weapon.weight
(ASCOD Pizarro) (ASCOD Ulan)
Weapon.suspension
torsion bar and Piedrafita rotary dampers models AR01 and AR02.
Weapon.speed
Road: 72 km/h
Weapon.primary_armament
30 mm Mauser MK 30/2 (ASCOD Ulan/Pizarro)
Weapon.secondary_armament
MG3 7.62×51mm NATO (Pizarro) FN MAG 7.62×51mm NATO (Ulan/ASCOD 2)

via Wikipedia infobox

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Encyclopedic overview

23 sections
Contents
  • History
  • Deployment history
  • Design
  • Armament
  • Optics and fire control system
  • Protection
  • Mobility
  • Characteristics
  • Spanish version
  • Structure
  • Sensors
  • Armament
  • Propulsion
  • Variants and derivatives
  • ASCOD
  • Spanish variant - Pizarro I and Pizarro II
  • Austrian variant - Ulan
  • ASCOD 2
  • Operators
  • Current operators
  • See also
  • References
  • External links

The ASCOD (Austrian Spanish Cooperation Development) armoured fighting vehicle family is the product of a cooperation agreement between Austrian Steyr-Daimler-Puch AG and Spanish General Dynamics Santa Bárbara Sistemas. Both companies are now divisions of a unit of General Dynamics. The ASCOD family includes the LT 105 light tank equipped with a 105 mm gun, a surface-to-air missile launcher, an anti-tank guided missile launcher, mortar carrier, R&R vehicle, command-and-control vehicle, ambulance, artillery observer, and the AIFV model.

In Spanish service, the vehicle is called "Pizarro". The Austrian version is called "Ulan".

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “ASCOD” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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